Land use and environmental regulations continue to significantly affect and shape growth and change in the Pacific Northwest. Increasing local, state and federal regulation produces more and more overlap between local, state and federal requirements and consistency. Growth related affects on the environment are increasing. Public demand for additional land use and regulation continue to increase. Despite an economy that continues to face a sluggish and difficult recovery, calls for regulatory reform including both demands for streamlining or eliminating regulations and demands for increased measures to address greenhouse gas emissions and Puget Sound water quality, are becoming louder.

With an emphasis on recent developments in the regulation of land, water and environmental resources, this year's program provides an in depth look at many of the major areas of land use and environmental regulation in Washington. Our speakers, who are recognized experts in their fields, discuss ways to balance the negative affects of growth with the need to stimulate the economic development necessary to restore our state and local economies to levels that can provide adequate levels of service, investment in infrastructure and preservation of our overall quality of life. We are coming together at this conference to provide our region's most thoughtful and educated insights on what is occurring and what may lie ahead.

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Instructors:

Eric Laschever

Jeremy Eckert

Ian Munce

(3 Ratings)